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C^ American Committee to Celebrate the Centenary 
of the Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which 
established lasting peace between America and 
Great Britain; as well as the plan to signalize, in 
fitting manner, the peace which has existed between 
the United States, Great Britain, and other nations. 

WooDROw Wilson- 
Thomas R. Marshall 

Honorary Chairman: Theodore Roosevelt 

Honorary Vice-Chairmen 

William Jennings Bryan Elihu Root 

Joseph H. Choate Adlai E. Stevenson 

Alton B. Parker Levi P. Morton 

Honorary Treasurer: Lyman J. Gage 

Honorary Secretary: Harry P. Judson 



Dear Sir: 

The American Committee met in conference on 
December 3rd and 4th in the City of Richmond, \'a. 

After prayer by Bishop O'Connell the conference was 
called to order by the Chairman of the Executive Com- 
mittee. After reports by the Committee on Rules, 
Harry E. Hunt, of Detroit, Mich., Chairman; by the 
Committee on Arrangements, WiHiam Curtis Demorest, 
New York, Chairman; and the reading of the call by 
Andrew B. Humphrey, the Secretary of the American 
Committee, Governor William Hodges Mann, of Vir- 
ginia, was escorted to the chair and presided during the 
forenoon session. General Frank S. Streeter, of Con- 
cord, N. H., was the subsequent presiding officer. 

After Governor Mann's address, an address of wel- 
come was delivered by T. M. Carrington, Esq., Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Commerce, on behalf of the 
City of Richmond, and response was made on behalf 
of the American Committee by Edwin D. Mead, of 
Boston, Mass. 

The morning session was passed in general discus- 
sion as to the character of the Celebration; and many 
interesting and valuable suggestions were made by the 
conferees. 

On motion of a member from New York the mem- 
bers of the Conference were divided into the follow- 
ing committees : 

Committee on International Celebration — Henry C. 
Morris, Chicago, 111., Chairman. 

Committee on National Celebration — James Brown 
Scott, Washington, D. C, Chairman. 

Committee on Official Celebration by the States — 
Gen. Frank S. Streeter, Concord, N. H.. Chairman. 

Committee on Local Celebration — Andrew B. Hum- 
phrey, New York, Chairman. 

Committee on Plan and Scope of Co-operation by 
Patriotic Organizations — Col. Bennehan Cameron, 
Raleigh, N. C, Chairman. 

Committee on Co-operation of Universities,' Col- 
leges and Schools — Dr. Henrj^ Sturgis Drinker, South 
Bethlehem, Pa., Chairman. 

Committee on Legislation — Former Representative 
W. W. Cocks, Old Westbury, N. Y., Chairman. 

NOTE: Only sunuitarics of reports arc given; full 
reports zvill be published later. 



Committee on Resolutions — Judge William L. Car- 
penter, Detroit, Mich., Chairman. 

Committee on Address to the people of the United 
states — Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York, Honorary 
Chairman ; Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington, Del., 
Chairman. (These two gentlemen are descendants of 
two of the signers of the Treaty of Ghent.) 

The conferees were gratified at having present with 
them eight members of the Canadian Committee who 
participated in the discussion and took part in all pro- 
cee<lings. These were : 

Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Committee, 
Major Charles F. Hamilton, of Ottawa. 

The energetic and accomplished Secretary of the 
Canadian Committee, Mr. E. H. Scammell, who is in 
charge of the work of the Canadian Committee in 
Hope Chambers. Ottawa. 

Rev. A. C. Mackintosh, Fort Erie. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hamilton, Fort Erie. 

J. J. Foster, Fort Erie. 

Miss Mildred Green, Montreal. 

The conference, having been called for work and 
not for futile discussion, the afternoon of Wednesday, 
December 3rd, was devoted to discussion in committee. 
the conferees deciding to do away with the holding of 
the open schedule as per the pre-arranged program. 

In the evening illustrated lectures were delivered 
by Dr. James L. Tryon, of Boston, Mass., on the his- 
tory of the Ghent Treatv', and by Dr. T. Kennard 
Thomson, of New York, on the Niagara bridge and 
proposed memorials to he erected in commemoration. 

The committees began to make their reports at ten 
o'clock Thursday morning. A summary of the report 
of the Committees follows : — 

COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL CELEBRA- 
TION 
recommends, in part : — 

Celebration in Ghent, Belgium, Dec. 24th, 1914; 
Jan. 5-8, 1915. 

]Mass in Catholic churches, Christmas Eve, 1914. 

Sermons on Sunday following Christmas. 

Universal church observance on Sunday nearest 
Feb. 17th. 1915. 

Dedication, January 8-10, of monument marking place 
of last battle between two armies of English-speaking 
origin — ^New Orleans. 

February 12th, 1915, Presentation by .American 
Committee of replica of St. Gaudens' statue of Abra- 
ham Lincoln to the People of Great Britain — London. 

Dedication of Border Monuments or Laying Corner- 
stones of Sa)ne, at 

Calais and Houlton, Me., June 10th, 1915. 

Monument junction, Vermont, New Hampshire and 
Quebec, June 24th. 1915. 

Exercises at Ogdensburg-Prescott, June 30th, 1915. 

Dedication of arch at Mooers' Junction (Platts- 
burg), July 25-26, 1915. 

Laying cornerstones, identical monuments, Sault 
Ste. Marie, Mich., and Sault Ste. Marie. Ont.. Julv 
9th-10th, 1915. 

Minnesota and Manitoba, including St. Paul. Min- 
neapolis, Duluth and Superior: Dedication interna- 
tional monument, July 12th-15th, 1915. 



Portal, X. D, Manitoba, July 1-2-3, 1915. 

Pembina, N. D.. July 1-2-3, 1915. 

Montana and Saskatchewan, near Gateway, Mont., 
August 8-9, 1915. 

Port Hill, Idaho, and Alberta, August 15-16, 1915. 

Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and British Columbia, 
vveek of July 7th nr week of July 25th. 1015. 

International Finale — Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
Week of August ist or August 8th. 

It is further recommended that a memorial be pre- 
sented as a testimonial of friendship and goodwill to 
the peoples of Germanj-, France and those nations of 
the world which have contributed so largely to the 
population, prosperity and civilization of America; and 
the suggestion is made that such presentation be made 
by the Committee in the Capitals of the respective 
countries on the anniversary of the day on wiiich either 
the first settlement in America on the part of natives 
of such countries was made, or on the anniversarj' 
of the day of the first intercourse between America 
and the peoples of other countries, as with Japan 
and China. 

One exception has been made to this, as to 
France; for it is purposed to make the presentation 
to France, in Paris, on the day of the anniversary 
of the consummation of the Louisiana Purchase. 

Committee further recommends that events at 
Niagara Frontier and Detroit, be made international 
events, owing to their historical significance. In order 
that the entire great lakes region shall fully and fit- 
tingly participate in the celebration it is recommended 
that a meeting be called from among Great Lake 
Committees by the American Committee, to be held 
at Mackinac Island, in July, 1914, for the purpose of 
preparing a comprehensive plan of cdgJMplion. nnd 
to the particular end that a great marimWemonstra- 
tion, initiating at Chicago and at Buflfalo and termi- 
na'ting at Dulutli, Minn., be held, all the cities along 
the Great Lakes taking part. A preliminary call for 
this meeting will be issued in February 1914. 

COMMITTEE OxN NATIONAL CELEBRATION 

will make a special report which will be published 
later. The tentative date for the National Celebra- 
tion in the District of Columbia has been fixed by 
agreement between the American Committee and the 
local committee. Dr. James Brown Scott, Chairman, 
for the second week in April, 1915. During the 
Celebration the American Committee, including the 
Washington Committee and the Women's Commit- 
tee, will assist in the dedication of the Queen Vic- 
toria memorial, and of the International peace mon- 
ument. 



COMMITTEE ON OFFICIAL CELEBRATIONS 
BY THE STATES 

rcconnnends, in part, that official celebrations be held 
in the State Capitals of the respective States on Feb- 
ruary 17th and ISth, 1915, the anniversaries of the 
dates on which the Ghent Treaty was ratified and pro- 
claimed. These ceremonies, it is suggested, should 
take the form of exercises in the Capitol buildings, 
the reading of the Treaty, then formal addresses by 



the Governors of the States and other distinguished 
men, such addresses to relate not only to the Ghent 
Treaty, but to the peace which has endured between 
this nation, Germany, France, and other nations. 

In order to make this a common celebration on 
the part of the States it is urged upon the Commit- 
tees representing the States, as an absolute prerequisite 
to State participation, that at the next session of their 
respective legislatures a bill, creating a commission 
and carrying with it an appropriation be introduced 
and that a campaign be waged for its passage. 

The Committee on Law and Legislation, of which 
Judge Alton B. Parker is Chairman, through its sub- 
committee in Richmond, former Representative \V. W. 
Cocks, Chairman, drafted the following bill, which is 
the one in essentials which will be introduced in the 
Legislature of the State of New York on January 
first next. 

A BILL to approve of and execute a plan for the 
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary 
of the Treaty of Ghent between the United States 
of America, Great Britain and Ireland, and of a 
century of peace and amity between the United 
States and other nations: 

The People of the State- of New York, rep- 
resented in Senate and Assembly do enact as 
follows : — 

Section 1. A Commission consisting of fif- 
teen members, to be known as the Peace Cen- 
tenary Celebration Commission, is hereby cre- 
ated. The Lieutenant-Governor, the President 
pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the 
Assembly and the Chief Judge of the Court of 
Appeals shall be ex-ofificio members of said Com- 
mission. The other eleven members of said 
Commission shall be appointed by the Governor. 
_ Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Com- 
mission to confer with such other commissions, 
or with such committees as may have been or 
shall be constituted for similar purposes in New 
York and by and in other States, and in the 
Provinces of Canada and in other countries, 
and to devise and execute a plan for an appro- 
priate celebration in the City of Albany on Feb- 
ruary 17th and ISth, 1915, and elsewhere at 
other dates in the State of New York, of the 
One Hundredth Anniversary of the signing of 
the Treaty of Ghent, and of a century of amity 
between the United States and other countries. 

Section 3. For the expenses of the Commis- 
sion, including salary of its Secretary, clerical 
services, printing, preparation of plans, traveling 
expenses, ofiice expenses and other legitimate 

expenditures, the sum of $ ■ is hereby 

appropriated, the same to be paid immediately 
from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated. 

This bill is offered to the States organizations as 
a model from which a suitable bill can be drafted 
for presentation in the other States. 

The Committee respectfully recommends that 
through legislative enactment or otherwise the sug- 



gestion of Senator Root, that a given five minutes 
be authoritatively set aside for and designated as a 
period of silence through the United States should, 
so far as humanly possible, be carried out. 

In a recent letter to the State Committees they 
were urged immediately to ask their respective Gov- 
ernors to increase the membership of each State Com- 
mittee to 100 or more. This should be done as 
quickly as possible; the State Committees should or- 
ganize and the campaign for legislation should begin. 
As was suggested, both the campaign to create public 
sentiment and an appeal for support should be made 
in the form of an address (sample enclosed) to be 
published at a given time in all the newspapers of 
the respective States, the address to be signed by 
ten or more of the leading citizens of the State rep- 
resenting various occupations and creeds. This ad- 
dress should be sent to the press not later than Jan- 
uary 21st. 

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL CELEBRATION 

recommends in part : — 

That towns and cities lying in strictly rural sec- 
tions fix their own date of celebration to conform to 
the local situation ; but it is suggested that a date 
immediately subsequent to harvest time, or after hay- 
ing would probably suit the local needs best. These 
towns, such as Oneida, Batavia, Elmira. Binghamton, 
Oneonta, Olean, Poughkeepsie, Utica. N. Y., Yank- 
ton, S. D., Burlington and Council Bluffs, Iowa, Read- 
ing, Pa., etc., etc., would be urged also to observe 
any special universal occasions as are decided upon 
either in National or international conference. 

The following recommendations are made as to cele- 
brations in other localities : — 

/i/afca»/o— Montgomen^: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Alaska— Juneau: -Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

Arisona—Fhoemx: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Arkausas— Little Rock: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

California — Sacramento: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 
Oakland: August 18th, 1915. 

Colorado— Demer: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; July 
21st-25th — Rocky Mountain Celebration. 

Coniiecficut—Bavtiord: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915: 
Meriden: Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915 and Julv 4th. 1915; 
New Haven: Feb. 17th and 18rh, 1015." 

Dclaivarc — Dover: Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

F/onWa— Tallahassee : Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

Grorgw— Atlanta : Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

/rfa/!o— Boise: Feb. 17th and 18th. August 15th. 
1915. 

Illinois — 'Springfield: Feb. 17th and 18th, 191'; 
Chicago: July 9th-12th. July 11th. 1915. 

Indiana — Idianapolis : Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

lozm-Des, Moines: Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915; Burl- 
ington, la.: Same ns Batavia. N. Y. 

Kansas — Topeka : Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

AV;; /Mrity— Frankfort: Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

Louisiana — Baton Rouge: Feb. l-7th and 18th, 1915 

Mcm^— Augusta : Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

Maryland — .\nnapolis : Feb. 17th and 18th. 191"; 
Baltimore: Sept. 10th and .12th, 1015. 

Massachtfsctts — Boston: Feb. 17th and 18th, .\pril 
30, Mav 1st. 1915; Cambridge: Feb. 17th and 18th. 
April 30th, May 1st, 1915. 



Michigan — Lansing: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Miuiiesota— Si. Paul: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Minneapolis: July 10th, 11th, also special day of 
presentation memorials to Norway and Sweden. 

Mississippi^Jackson: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Missouri— JeflQTson City: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Montana—Helena: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Nebraska-Lincoln: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

A^^z-aJa— Carson City: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

New Hampshire — Concord: Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915. 

New Jersey — Trenton: Feb. 17tli and 18th, 1915. 

New Mexico-Santa Fe : Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Albuquerque: April 21st, 1915. 

Nezu York— Albany: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; Buf- 
falo : July 2nd-6th ; Batavia : Should fix date of 
celebration to conform to local situation. A date im- 
mediately subsequent to harvest time is probably the best. 
Should also take part in universal celebration on Febru- 
ary I7th-18th, 1915. Olean : Same as Batavia; Oneida: 
Same as Batavia ; Oneonta : Same as Batavia ; Pough- 
keepsie : Same as Batavia; Svracuse : Special day 
N. Y. State Fair, Sept. 6th, 1915; Utica : Same as 
Batavia ; Ithaca : Same as Batavia. 

North Carolina — Raleigh : Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915. 

North Dakota— Bismarck: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Fargo : Same as Batavia, N. Y. 

0/;/o— Columbus : Feb. l_7th and 18th, 1915; Cin- 
cinnati: July 4th-llth — Ohio River week — Celebra- 
tion should be held in conjunction with similar cele- 
brations by Pittsburg, Louisville, Memphis, St. Louis, 
and other Ohio-Mississippi cities. Feature of cele- 
bration should he sailing of fleet on Ohio River. 

Oklahoma — Oklahoma City: Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915. 

Or^/7on— Salem : Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915. 

Pennsylvania — Harrisburg: Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915; Pittsburg: See Cincinnati, Ohio; Reading: Same 
as Batavia. N. Y. 

Rhode Island — Providence: Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915. 

South Carolina — Columbia : Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915; Spartanburg: Same as Batavia, N. Y. 

South Dakota— Fierve: Feb .17th and 18th. 1915; 
Yankton : Same as Batavia, N. Y. 

Tennessee— y:ash\ine: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Knoxville : Same as Batavia, N. Y. 

Texas— Austin : Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915; Fort 
Worth : Same as Batavia, N. Y. 

Utah— Salt Lake City: Feb. 17th and ISth. 1915. 

rrr;;;o;;f— Montpelier: Feb. 17th and 18th, 10] 5; 
Burlinorton: Tune 24th. 1015; Middlcburv: Feb. 17th 
and 18th, 1915. 

F;><7nna— Richmond : Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915; 
Danville: Same as Batavia. N. Y. 

JVashinoton—Olvmpia: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Seattle: Week of Tuly 7th-25th. 1915, 

West Virginia — Charleston : Feb. 17th and 18th, 
1915. 

Wisconsin— Madisnn: Feb. 17th and 18th, 1915; 
Milwaukee: Julv 12th and 13th, 1915. 

Wyoming— Cheyenne: Feb. 17th and 18th. 1915. 

Numerous suggestions have been received as re- 

gard.'= local celebration. These are, briefly, addresses; 
church services: formal exercises in the City Hall; 
parades and pageantry: the erection of monuments; 



the holding of field sports; an interchange of in- 
expensive bronze tablets or other memorials between 
towns or cities of the United States, Canada, Great 
Britain and Ireland bearing similar names, and to 
this end it is suggested that the local committees 
consult the gazetteers, ascertain if towns bearing a 
similar name exist elsewhere throughout the world, 
and then, through correspondence, get into touch 
with the authorities or leading citizens of such places, 
to the end that some recognition may be made of 
the happy coincidence in some formal way during 
the course of the centenarj' celebration in 1915. 

It is desirable that local committees should meet 
as soon as possible to discuss a plan of local celebra- 
tion, and to work it out along their own lines to 
the end that they may celebrate in a distinctive and 
individual way. 

COMMITTEE ON PLAN AND SCOPE OF CO- 
OPERATION BY PATRIOTIC ORGANIZA- 
TIONS 

Report to be issued later. 

COMMITTEE ON CO-OPERATION OF UNIVER- 
SITIES,, COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS, 
Dr. Henry Sturgis Drtnker, Chairman, 

will submit a report sometime about February 15th, 
1914, which will be then made public. 

COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 
See Report Committee on State Celebrations. 

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 

"Resolved, That the American Committee, repre- 
sented by delegates from thirty-one states and fifty-three 
cities and towns, acknowledges, through these resolutions 
and for general publication, the debt of gratitude which 
the Committee owes to the citizens of Richmond, in 
general, and, in particular, the Chamber of Commerce, 
which, through its President, T. M. Carrington, Esq., 
and through its Secretary, R. A. Dunlop. Esq., so zeal- 
ously and efficient)}- labored to make our stay in this 
delightful and beautiful city a visit of pleasure, and one 
long to be remembered. The hospitality of the good 
people of Richmond is as noted as is the history of 
their city; and for the welcome with which we were 
received and the courtesy with which we have been 
treated we give our hearty and sincere thanks. 

(Signed) William L. Carpenter, 

Detroit, Mich., 
Cliair>ita)i." 

The following resolutions were favorably reported 
by the Committee on Resolutions. 

Resolution submitted by Mr. Robert C. Morris, New 
York : — 

"The American Committee for the Celebration of 
tlie. One Hundredth .Anniversary of Peace Amoncr 
English-Speaking Peoples, 1914-15, extends its cordial 
thanks to the British Committee to celebrate the peace 



centenary, and offers tliis expression of its sincere ap- 
preciation of the joint action of the British Committee 
and the Executive Committee of the Anglo-American 
Exposition in London, 1914, taken at a meeting of the 
Executive Committee of the British Committees in 
London on August iirst, 1913, at which the following 
resolution was formally agreed to : — 

"The Executive Committee of the American-British 
Exposition agree in principle to an arrangement be- 
tween them and the British-American Peace Centenary 
Committees whereby the American- British Exposition 
to be held in 1914, at Sheperd's Bush, London, with its 
various committees intact, shall be taken as forming 
part of the more permanent scheme ; the Executive 
Committee of the Exposition providing out of the net 
profits arising from it a sum up to Forty Thousand 
Pounds for the foundation of Scholarships in connec- 
tion with Commercial and Social Economics in both 
countries, in equal proportions to each country, to be 
called "The American-British Exposition Scholarships,' 
Earl Grey and his Committee agreeing in return to do 
everything in their power to forward the success of 
the Exposition, and with his principal colleagues to 
join its General Committee." 

"Be it resolved by the American Sub-Executive 
Committee that this munificent gift be accepted in the 
spirit in which it is offered, and, further be it 

"Resolved, That the Anglo-American Exposition be 
heartily approved, and that this committee urge its 
members to aid in making the Exposition a success. 

"Resolved, That this action is peculiarly incumbent 
upon this committee in view of the particular fact that 
the Anglo-American Exposition Committee intends to 
utilize its success to the end that a representative ex- 
hibit maj^ be sent from Great Britian to the Pan-Amer- 
ican Exposition in San Francisco, to which this Com- 
mittee stands committed, and in which it has a direct 
interest because of the celebration at the Exposition of 
the tinale of the Century of Peace, 1915." 

Also the following resolution, approved by the Amer- 
ican Sub-Executive Committee, and submitted by Mr. 
Jacob H. Schiff. of New York: — 

"The American Committee for the Celebration of 
the One Hundredth Anniversary of Peace Among Eng- 
lish-Speaking Peoples, 1914-15, and of unbroken peace 
with Germany, France and other great nations, views 
with deep regret and much concern the decision of 
the Government of Great Britain, acting in concert 
with Germany, not to be represented ofTicially on the 
occasion of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in celebra- 
tion, in 1915, of the opening of the Panama Canal, 
through which the commerce of the whole world will 
be so vastly benefitted ; 

"And inasmuch as the official celebration of the 
centenary of the Ghent Treaty in America will ter- 
minate at the San Francisco I'air in a week of cere- 
mony and public exercise — a fitting and impressive 
finale of the period of international rejoicing over the 
end of war between America and Great Britain — our 
Committee deems it unfortunate for the peace celebra- 
tion, and an incongruity, that our principal associate 
in the celebration should remain officially unrepresented 
at America's celebration over the completion of the 
Panama Canal, a situation likely to be misinterpreted 
and misunderstood by some of the American people, 



and, therefore, likely to reflect itself somewhat in pub- 
lic attitude towards the Peace Celebration. 

"Now, therefore, we greet our friends and associates 
in the Peace Celebration cause in Great Britain — the 
British Committee for the Celebration of the One 
Hundredth Anniversary of Peace Among English- 
Speaking Peoples — and beg their good offices and in- 
fluence in seeking to secure from the Government of 
Great Britain their reconsideration of their decision 
not officially to participate in the Panama Exposition, 
to the end that Great Britain and Ireland may be ade- 
quately represented among the exhibitors. 

"Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to lay 
these resolutions and this matter before the British 
Committee in London, and to take such steps in fur- 
therance of this desired end as may be necessary." 

Secretary Humphrey read the following telegram : — 
"John A. Stewart, Chairman Executive Committee 
American Committee for Celebration of One Hun- 
dredth Anniversary of Peace, 50 Church Street, New 
York :— 

"Heartily approved proposed plan of concluding in 
San Francisco, in nineteen fifteen, celebration of one 
hundredth anniversary of peace among English-Speak- 
ing people. Suggest for consideration setting aside of 
week to be known International Peace Week. Suggest 
for consideration International Peace Congress, Inter- 
national peace pageant, erection and dedication _ of 
American-English peace monument and great exhibit 
to illustrate Internationalism. Should the celebration 
be concluded in San Francisco we can arrange for al- 
most any week you would select. If cooperative plans 
can be arranged, we would oflfer to assist plans finally 
adopted by the appointment of committee of prominent 
citizens to represent at Exposition San Francisco and 
California. 

(Signed) Ch.^rles C. Moore, 

President, 
Panama-Pacific International Exposition." 

COMMITTEE ON ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE 
OF THE UNITED STATES 

To THE People of the United States: 

On Christmas Eve, 1814, Messrs. John Quincy 
Adams, James A. Bayard, Henrv Clay, Albert Gallatm 
and Jonathan Russell, on behalf of the United States, 
and Lord Gambier, Dr. Adams and Henry Gouldburn, 
Esq., on behalf of Great Britain, signed the Treatyof 
Ghent, which ended the war between the two countries. 

Shortly thereafter Mr. John Quincy .'\dams ex- 
pressed the hope, so wonderfuU" realized, that the peace 
thus restored should be enduring, saying, "May the 
gates of the temple of Janus closed here never be 
opened during the century." 

A few months later peace societies sprang into be- 
ing in both America and England ; and within three 
years, by formal agreement, the boundary Hne between 
the United States and Canada became a mere political 
limitation, like the peaceful boundaries that separate the 
States of the American Union, instead of a series of 
fortifications between two nations mutually distrustful 
of one another. 

Believing that the blessings that have followed in the 
train of tlie peace thus established cannot better be 

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brought to the attention of the world at large than by 

a lUtiiig celebration, the American committee at its in- 
itial meeting, held four years ago, formulated a plan 
for this purpose. The proposal was soon thereafter 
laid before the people of Great Britain and the self- 
governing colonies of the British empire. 

The American committee was animated by a patri- 
otic impulse and the belief that through an adequate 
world-wide celebration of a century of peace great 
good would be accomplished towards the rational set- 
tlement of international disputes. And it hoped and 
hopes to effect this through the creation of a senti- 
ment which shall educate the peoples of the world to 
regard forbearance and mutual understanding as vir- 
tues to be cultivated by governments and nations, as 
well as by individuals. 

The Committee also considered that through the 
association of the peoples of many nationalities in a 
common commemoration necessarily there would re- 
sult increased acquaintance, friendship and mutual un- 
derstanding which are essential to permanent peace. 

Therefore, the undersigned, a special committee act- 
ing for the American Committee, a body whose many 
thousand members are representative of every section 
of the United States, of every walk in Ufe, and of 
every profession and calling and of the different ele- 
ments from which our population is drawn, invite and 
urge co-operation throughout the United States, and 
the active, sympathetic interest of the citizens or sub- 
jects of all countries. 

It is sincerely hoped that all will take part with 
the American Committee, or with similar committees 
in other lands in the preparation and execution of an 
adequate and fitting program that shall signalize, as no 
other occurrence in the past would enable us to do, 
the realization of Mr. Adams's prophetic wish that the 
twentieth century might find the peace still unbroken. 

That our country has. been such an active factor in 
this wonderful achievement prompts us to celebrate the 
event — for peace as well as war is an event between 
nations — and arouses the hone that the hundred years 
which have passed since the Treaty of Ghent was 
signed on Christmas eve, 1814, may be not only the 
precursor of a perpetual peace between Great Britain 
and the United States, but the promise of a broadening 
era of enduring peace between all nations. 

Members: — 

nomas F. Bayard, Wilmington, Del. 
A illiam Jennings Bryan, Washington, D. C. 
Nicholas Murray Butler, New York. 
Warren A. Candler, Atlanta, Ga. 
Andrew Carnegie, New York. 
William L. Carpenter, Detroit Mich. 
Joseph H. Choate, New York. 
John D. Crimmins, New York. 
George Dewey, Washington, D. C. 
Jacob M. Dickinson, Nashville, Tenn. 
Henry Sturgis Drinker, South Bethlehem, Pa. 
John F. Fitzgerald, Boston, Mass. 
Austen G. Fox, New York. 
Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York. 
James Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Md. 
Samuel Gompers, Washington, D. C. 
Reuben B. Hale, San Francisco, Cal. 
W. O. Hart. New Orleans, La. 
Charles D. Hilles, New York. 

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Andrew B. Humphrey, New York. 

Hennen Jennings, Washington, D. C. 

Harry P. Judson, Chicago, 111. 

Henry B. F. Macfarland Washington, D. C. 

William Hodges Mann, Richmond, Va. 

William F. McCombs, New York. 

Andrew J. Montague, Richmond, Va. 

Alton B. Parker, New York. 

Jacob H. Schiff, New York. 

James Brown Scott, Washington, D. C. 

Albert Shaw, New York. 

Adlai E. Stevenson, Bloomington, 111. 

John A. Stewart, New York. 

Oscar S. Straus, New York. 

Frank S. Streeter. Concord. N. H. 

William Howard Taft. New Haven. Conn. 

Charlemagne Tower, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Cornelius •Vanderbilt, New York. 

The reports were all presented by 12 :30, and a 
motion to adjoin sine die was unanimously passed. 

In the afternoon the conferees were made the 
guests of the Chamber of Commerce and the _Cit\- 
of Richmond, and under the auspices of President 
Carrington and Secretary R. A. Dunlop a tour of 
the beautiful city was made, the guests stopping for 
a while at the John Marshall High School, where 
interesting exercises were performed by the pupils, 
and where the audience listened to speeches by Dr. 
S. C. Mitchell. Professor Frederick Fling. Mr. E. 
H. Scammell. Dr. Edwin D. Mead, and others, and 
afterwards visited the home of John Marshall, the 
Museum of the Confederacy, and other points of 
interest. 

In the evening the conferees were the guests of the 
City and the Chamber of Commerce at a most de- 
lightful banquet, at which John Stewart Brvan. of 
Richmond, presided as toastmaster. and at which the 
following were speakers : • 

Albert Shaw, New York. 

Major Charles F. Hamilton. Ottawa. 

Dr. James Brown Scott, Washington, D. C. 

Dr. S. C. Mitchell, Columbia. S. C. 

Hon. Henry D. Flood. Chairman Committee on For- 
eign .Affairs. House of Representatives, Washington, 
D. C. 
Hon. Oscar S. Straus, former Ambassador to Turkey. 

Dr. Henry Sturgis Drinker. President of Lehigh 
University, South Bethlehem, Pa. 

Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington, Del. 

Many ladies took part in the conference, and while 
in Richmond they were the guests of a Women's 
Reception Committee, of which Mrs. Mann, wife_ of 
Governor Mann, and Mrs. Ellyson, wife of the Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of Virginia, were chairmen. M the 
banquet these distinguished ladies acted as hostesses. 

The Committee was so hospitably received, the 
wants and wishes of its members were so zealously 
looked after by the people of Richmond that the Com- 
mittee feels itself under a lasting obligation to the 
men and women who made their stay at the historic 
Capital of the State so aptly called^ the Mother_ of 
Presidents so pleasant and so engrossingly interesting. 

(Signed) John A. Stewart, 

Chairman Executive Committee. 

January ist, 1914. 



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